Have you ever been talking to someone and wondered "if I start talking about throttle bodies, will this person think I'm insane?" Don't worry, Jalopnik readers have ten sure-fire tips to spot a gearhead, so you never embarrass yourself.

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Of course, this is a guide for only the strictest basics of gearhead identification. It is a list to be used in emergencies, like when you're meeting your significant other's parents for the first time and you're not sure whether to say you have an E30, or just a BMW, or if you should bring up carburetor tuning at the dinner table.

There are some things that no car lover will ever get right. For instance, no one in the history of recorded time has ever pronounced "Hyundai" correctly, but we think these ten tips make for an acceptable rough guideline.

There are definitely more advanced identification guides (such as do you know what the hell this thing is), so please leave your higher-level gearhead questions in Kinja below.

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8.) They Do The WOT Head Snap

You're walking down the street and you hear the sound of a V12 whipping up through the rev range. Of course you whip your head around to see what's flying past, but after you do, look around. Whoever else snapped their head around to see what car was making that noise (especially if it was a Lancia) is a gearhead, too.